Summary: Lady Trieu buys a farm property where something falls from space. Angela works on disposing the evidence that Will was in her bakery. She returns to the heritage center to view her family tree but is shaken by a loud sound. She goes outside to find her car and Laurie standing with it. Angela finds some pills in the glovebox and hides them. Angela enlists Wade to help her find out what the pills are. While disposing evidence, Angela is seen by a mysterious man. When she goes into work, she finds out that Laurie is her new boss, and Laurie is onto Will after discovering his prints on Angela's car. Laurie, Angela and Petey go to the Millennium Clock to meet with Lady Trieu. Will is in contact with Trieu. Angela learns that Laurie knows about her history with Cal, and confronts Cal about speaking with her. Trieu discusses her plan with Will. Elsewhere, Adrian gets fetuses from a lake and forms them into more clones, more determined to escape.
The Good: The opening sequence was really interesting. This was a brilliant way to introduce another important character, and the scene really allows Trieu to shine. She's clearly quite intelligent and accomplished, yet she is polite and likes to crack jokes as she goes about her business, almost like she enjoys toying with other people. She is really engaging, and watching her manipulate the couple to get what she wants is fascinating. Plus, this opening sequence raises even more intriguing questions as the mystery of this world gets more and more complex. I enjoyed the tensions between Laurie and Angela throughout this episode. I have always enjoyed crime dramas, so it's really fun to watch Angela try to escape as Laurie puts her in increasingly uncomfortable positions. In this episode, Laurie both becomes Angela's boss unexpectedly and brings her along for her investigation, which leads to some unexpected developments with Trieu. One detail I really liked was how the car falling at the end of the previous episode that Laurie thought was meant for her was actually for Angela instead. It was a nice little twist from what we expected, which allowed the show to touch on an idea that was heavily explored in "The Leftovers". I've really enjoyed seeing how Lindelof's work on "The Leftovers" is reflected in this show. The Bad: This episode falls a bit flat. This is an episode that needed to exist with the characters more established than they currently are, because it was difficult to care about the stories being told here. The main problem is Angela, who was very much the centerpiece of this episode. We know such little about her that it's hard to invest in her conflicts and decisions when they come up. There are two key problems that come with this. For one, we have no real idea why Angela isn't telling Laurie anything. Sure, she doesn't trust her, but why? Why doesn't she trust Laurie? And why does she need to protect Will as well? Is it because he is family? If that's the case, the show has done a woeful job of illustrating that this is Angela's motive, and as a result I'm really disconnected with Angela's overall story. Another big problem comes from the scene between Angela and Cal. We have had lots of scenes with Angela's family so far, with Topher, Cal and the other daughters. But they haven't really done much for me since I don't care very much about these characters and their relationships. This very much feels like the situation from "The Leftovers" season 1 where the Garvey family were completely unengaging until the full story was revealed at the end of the season. I feel like once we learn about Angela's story, this will be fine. But since we don't know her story, these early episodes aren't compelling at all. The Angela/Cal scene I specifically wanted to mention is when Angela asked him what he told Laurie. We don't know why Cal telling information to Laurie would be dangerous, and that's a problem because we don't understand the stakes of the conversation we are watching. Furthermore, Cal says he lied to Laurie, yet we never find out what he said. Are we really supposed to treat Cal talking to Laurie as a big deal if even the show doesn't seem interested in exploring it? The final scene of the episode really embodies my problems with the show so far. It's a very nicely acted scene with two enigmatic characters I'm interested in. But there's no substance to latch onto while they talk. It's just two characters vaguely talking about a plan that we know virtually nothing about, giving us tons of questions, but nothing else. It's very unsatisfying to watch these endless questions pop up, and I hope that the show starts focusing more on characters as we're almost halfway through the show's run and we still know very little. Adrian's scenes are still frustrating as well. We do still get some good reveals about the nature of his world, and I still do enjoy the mystery of his storyline. But when the rest of the episode is frustratingly vague, these confusingly artistic sequences only serve to test my patience and further annoy me. The Unknown: What was that meteor that landed in the Clark land? How did Trieu know it was coming? What is she going to do with it? Also, how did she make a baby for the Clarks? Was Lady Trieu the one who lifted Will then? Why is she working with him? How do they know each other? What is the deal they have? How is Will betraying Angela? What is Trieu's goal? What is the Millennium Clock for? Apparently Trieu is doing something with her daughter. What is she doing to her? How is it similar to what Will is doing to Angela? Who the heck is Lube Man? (as a side note, Red Scare is hilarious, I like him a lot) Why does Wade live in a bunker? Who is his ex? What are the pills that were given to Angela? Adrian says he was not the maker of the clones. Then who was? Best Moment: The unexpected opening sequence. Character of the Episode: Trieu. Conclusion: This was a frustrating episode. I enjoy mystery very much, and it can work really well in episodes like the previous one. However, this episode was too much mystery with too little story substance to tide us over. This was easily the least enjoyable episode of the series so far. Score: 54
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